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These podcasts were recorded by members of Prof. Christopher Francese’s Introduction to Roman Poetry class (Latin 112) at Dickinson College. Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 – 54 BC) is one of the most beloved of Latin poets because of his elegance and wit and the directness and intensity of his loves, friendships and hatreds. Nearly lost forever in the middle ages, his work survived thanks to a single manuscript, an anthology that may or may not have been arranged by Catullus himself. No titles exist, so the poems are known by their order in the manuscript, from 1 to 116, and by their first lines.